UK - BBC Whitewashing Muslim issues

The BBC started out refusing to use the terrorist word, then dropped the word "Muslim" from terror reports that involved Muslims, simply referring to them by their job title or simple as "man" and now it looks like the BBC may be dropping all reference to Muslims in their reporting. Melanie Phillips has the latest.

Astounding omission from an item by Caroline Wyatt on yesterday’s BBC Radio Four Today programme about Ni Putes Ni Soumises, the courageous French Muslim women’s organisation that campaigns against violence by Muslim men against Muslim women. The item simply excised all references to Islam. It presented the issue instead as a problem of ‘north African immigrants’, of the French banlieues, of the ghetto. It was said to be all about the way women were perceived to uphold the ‘honour’ of ‘the ghetto’ and ‘the family’. But which ghetto? Which family? And by whom? All immigrants? All north Africans?

Of course not. The issue of honour is a specifically Islamic issue. It does not apply to, say, north African Christians or north African Animists. It is specific to those North African immigrants who are Muslims. The women were rightly quoted as saying that this violence towards them is then also expressed towards the outside world. But the reason for this violence was simply left dangling. Listeners were left none the wiser. Yet ‘ni putes ni soumises’ translates roughly as ‘neither whores nor submission’. It is not ‘north African immigrants’ who regard women as either whores or having to submit – such attitudes are specific to the Muslims among them.

All this must be from all that media training the former head of al Jazeera, Ibrahim Helal, is providing to the BBC.

It also helps explain why the BBC's world affairs editor, John Simpson, refers to the Muslim terrorists who murdered over 50 innocent Britons on 7/7, as "misguided criminals". And why the BBC stacked the auidence with 5 times as many Muslims in a forum discussing people's feelings after the Muslim terror attack. Helal even has the BBC's John Simpson referring to al Qaeda as the "resistance".

Now, read the case against the BBC and tell me the BBC is not on the enemy's side.
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